Definition of Gyp

(n.)
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
  

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gyp
\gyp\ (?), n. [said to be a sportive application of gr. &?; a vulture.] a college servant; -- so called in cambridge, england; at oxford called a scout. [cant]

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To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.

noun

1. A fraud or swindle.

2. One who defrauds; a swindler.

1. swindle; cheat; defraud or rob by some sharp practice; 2. obtain by swindling or cheating; steal; 3. swindle; 4. swindler or cheat

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Noun
1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
(synonym) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam
(hypernym) swindle, cheat, rig
(hyponym) sting operation
(derivation) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, con

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Verb
1. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
(synonym) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, con
(hypernym) cheat, rip off, chisel
(hyponym) short-change, short
(derivation) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam

Boiler scale; a residue or deposit from "hard water," water with high concentrations of minerals. Pipe and vessels handling hard water become gypped up as the minerals form a hard, rock-like layer on the inner surfaces Gypsum.

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